MLA/Pushkin and His African Heritage

[Catharine Nepomnyashchy]

Dear SEELangers,

Please note the following, corrected versions of the panels "Pushkin and
His African Heritage" I and II to be held at the MLA National Convention
in San Francisco:


panel #325  Pushkin and His African Heritage I
Dec. 28 1:45-3:00  Empire Room, Fairmont Hotel

Chair:  Robert Coles
        Hampshire College

Speakers:  Ludmilla Trigos, "Creativity and Blackness in Tynianov's
'Gannibaly'"
           Columbia University


          Liza Knapp, "Tsvetaeva's 'Blackest of Black' Pushkin"
          University of California at Berkeley

         Caryl Emerson, "Pushkin's Ethiopian Great-Grandfather:  The
Opera"
         Princeton University

Discussant:  Boris Gasparov
             Columbia University



Panel #585  Pushkin and His African Heritage II
Dec. 29 1:45-3:00  Esquire Room, Fairmont Hotel

Chair:  William Mills Todd III
        Harvard University

Speakers:  Anne Lounsberry, "Bound by Blood to the Race:  Pushkin in
African American Context"
          Harvard University

          Richard Borden, "Making a True Image:  Blackness and Pushkin
Portraits"
          Independent scholar

          Carol Ueland, "The 'Swarthy Youth':  Women Rewriting Pushkin's
Biography"
          Drew University

Discussant:  Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy
             Barnard College



Please take advantage of the on site registration discount MLA now offers
those who have registered for AATSEEL to attend these and other Slavic
panels at the MLA.